Repository of 3d models

elander · Post by **elander** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:16 pm

It looks like .x is the best mesh format for Irrlicht/Blender at the moment so i had this idea for a .x model repository everyone can use to get free and clean 3d models. Perhaps even make this repository an svn repo so that anyone can contribute with clean .x meshes.

I was thinking about starting with these:

http://www.katorlegaz.com/index.php?a=d ... Repository

Clean them up and test them with irredit.

What do you guys think? Would you like to contribute?

Anteater · Post by **Anteater** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:27 pm

Looks good. One thing I think would also be a good idea is making sure each model comes with a license agreement. BTW, the website seems to be down for a while, though.

elander · Post by **elander** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:30 pm

Yes of course the license agreement. However many downloadable models are public domain and come without a license agreement so we would have to add a creative commons license or something since gnu only applies to code.

I will post some free models in here when i get them fixed.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:14 pm

Well, as you can see from the site you mentioned it's not enough to get the meshes from a place where they're labelled with 'public domain' or something. You will easily run into copyright problems. And as soon as your repository is found by enough web crawlers you'll get download traffic which kills also the larger servers. It's probably better to link to some meshes which are NOT working to help developers test their loaders.

elander · Post by **elander** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:03 pm

I will put a small collection of .x models here with the creatice commons license just for people to get something to start with. The only pro mesh format that Blender can export properly is .x and that still requires some tricks with msview to get models working.

Now if there was a good .md5 loader that would be great.